I want to feel as peaceful as flowers. I want to move as freely as the wind. I want to see the world through the eyes of every person and creature I come across. Some people say these yearnings ...

As blue jeans, beards, body adornments, natural foods, legal marijuana, gay marriage, and single parenthood have gained ...

Go ahead, name your movement. Name something good and positive and pro-environment and eco-friendly that's happening in the newly "greening" of America and don't say more guns in Texas or fewer ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article first appeared in the August 8, 1967, issue of National Review. The hippie movement, if indeed it can be called a movement, confronts the curious observer as a ...

In the spring of 1966 Steve Slavin joined a pickup basketball game on a playground in Greenwich Village. Who should show up but Bernie Sanders, his old friend and roommate from Brooklyn College. He ...

I spent a lot of time with hippies with I was a young(er!) man, in many parts of the American West, primarily Missoula, Mont. I was even a bit of a hair farmer myself in those days. But these were ...

It was the most frolicsome funeral in memory. Through San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park wended a legion of hippies, the lads bedizened with beads and scrapes, the lasses with furs and long velvet ...